Show I Other Points of View I I.E. OF OP NATIONS NATION'S It Is to be feared that exposure e and discussion of or tho banal absurdities with which Imaginative Imaginative- persons person not ble blessed ed with tho the ability to think into have beclouded tho phrase Lea League uc of or Nations will so 80 confuse confuse- and disgust tho statesmen of or the tho world that nothing whatever will beono be bo done dono ono There Thero ought If Ir possible to bo be some kind of oC un an In International international In- In understanding tending to prevent war Wo Po have o had a n good many such Buch agreements ng nn while none have halo been able abl to stand any serious strain they have all been useful and have vo prevented man many wars Yo WO o ought to be able ablo to mako make a more moro Influential one ono now But nut nn any attempt to It coercive o power upon upon any any- Individual nation la is absurd There Thore Is no nation which would submit to It and the smaller em the tho nation the more vigorously it If will resist All know mow what a l Job It was to tog I g get t Rhode Rhodo Island to enter our union Its people feared that thc they would bo be coerced by bp th the bl big bl- states and ami they I were about right I Any league of or nations having an any legislative o authority whatever cr cr must be In effect an economic league for alt all wars h have ve for tor their object some somo economic purpose It must also have havo the power of or direct le levy of or taxes upon Individuals i In no other way could It be bl sure of ot a n. reve reve- I nue flue As 8 long as all were satisfied this mon money would come como In When hen an any were dissatisfied remittances would stop There can be no pledge of national faith which h will stan stand any Y serious strain Rebellions are abundant even en within national boundaries s Even in ill In this countr country Wo we have havo had two trifling ones and one bl big one Tho reason wh why there can bo no such league of or nations nations nations na na- Is that national Ideals aspirations standards a of or living living liv liv- ing education and economic necessities tS and desires are areso areso areso so widely divergent There Thero Is no possibility of or reconciling recon recon- them It Is la difficult enough to hold together tho people of or any empire occupying a 11 great area We can cnn today see trouble enough enouch b by looking across either ocean An effective o league of or nations presupposes an actual government presumably of or strictly limited powers We Ve WeIn VeIn In this country can testify that such euch a 11 government en endowed endowed endowed en- en dowed with the tho power of or taxation Yer very quickly passes tho the bounds of ot the authority grant granted d to It Tho The method Is Js m military III tart tar necessity In time of or war gar aT holding on to as much as ns possible after the war and construction In time of ot peace The few tew people who could be tho the thereal real real government of or a league of ot nations would have o similar Impulses and If Ie they had hall the money mono would Indulge them If Ie thc they did not have the tho mone money thc they would bo be Impotent Thero There are but hut two bases of or governmental go authority authority- the thc dynast enforcing divine divino right by b- soldiers who enable him to collect their pa pay from the people and the other the loyalty of or the people to the government which they have themselves es created The fhe first Is now universally recognized as bunk Tho The only basis is loyalty whose reciprocal Is protection and not only protection but respect for tor local habits and desires An Any world wide sentiment of or p popular pular loyalty to the government of an any league uc of or nations Is la at present present un un- thinkable And It If there thero Is no loyalty only temporary agreements without military sanction are possible San San Francisco Chronicle ta lei ta b te hi |